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24 May 2019 09:29:53:
Posted by RELEASE FORUM from
GENERAL SECRETARY,

Tomorrows race is from Sterling North due to westerly winds. We Arelooking at an early release so the birds avoid most of the heavyshower activity, so if weather permits an 8:30am release with arrivalbefore 12:00 noon.J.H

Prepaid Price for 2019 is $3.90 per bird.The General Secretary John Harper has collated the list provided byall clubs and we had 17,497 birds in total, which if you look at theForecast spreadsheet on the SAHPA website, it lines up with $3.90 perbird. This is a small increase of 5 cents a bird compared to lastyear.

Please fill out the Flyer Declaration Sheets, sign them and attachthe list of birds in numerical sequence. Recommend a copy is kept atClub to be checked and a copy sent to SAHPA General Secretary.

Please make payment for your Team to your Club Secretary and then theclub secretary will forward to SAHPA single payment and all forms forthe club on Friday 24th May, 2019.

After your initial form is lodged this Friday and you decide over thecoming weeks to register more birds, it will be $6 per bird for thefirst Late Registration form lodged, any subsequent Lateregistrations will be double the Prepaid amount which is $7.80 perbird.

- These birds are also eligible to be flown by the senior flyer ifone is present in the SAHPA competition in the same races (it isunfair to penalise the senior for supporting junior), but not inaddition to any SAHPA bird limits.

-Results to be listed under clubs SAHPA Juniors.

-Points score awarded from 1st to last depending on registerednumbers each flyer will score pts providing they time a bird in.

Prepayment of Race Birds 2019 - On Monday 20th May the ClubSecretaries need to notify the General Secretarysahpa.secretary@gmail.com of the number of birds to be registered fortheir Club before 7pm. Please see SAHPA website where you candownload the SAHPA Prepaid Summary sheet, please fill this in foreach flyer.

All members, please note that we are asking Secretaries to record thenumber nominated as at 20/5/19 and again 4 days later on 24/5/19 oncethe Prepaid per Bird Fee is announced. If the number deviates bymore than 5 the flyer must give an explanation which the Secretarywill record. The SAHPA Committee may request members that have largedeviations to attend a COM meeting to discuss their reason for thenumbers changing by more than 5 birds within 4 days. It is importantthat we have an accurate number of birds to do our calculation toavoid making a loss.

We have already forecast the Racing Costs for the 2019 Season($62,029 exGST) and we will publish this spreadsheet on the sahpawebsite for members to review. In summary (all per bird pricesinclude GST) if we get 22000 birds the prepaid will be $3.15, 20000birds $3.45, 18000 birds $3.80, 17000 birds $4.05, 16000 birds $4.30.Based on ring sales being up and Rotavax being available I am hopingfor around 18000+ birds, but we will all know for certain on Monday.

All members to complete the Flyer Declaration sheet, attach copylisting all ring numbers on prepaid list (in numerical order) onFriday 24th May. One copy for club to check and once copy to be sentto SAHPA for the Adjudicator to check. Payment should be made to theclub and a single payment for the whole club will be made to SAHPA.The SAHPA will not present any cheques for 10 days to give time forClub Secretaries to bank any monies and have cheques cleared in clubbank accounts.

We have a great season in front of us, 22 races on the SAHPA program,10 short, 6 middle distance and 6 long distance races plus the 2SALDC events and the 5 mid week West Line races. Most members havevaccinated for RotaVirus and we can get back to our full strength.We have 158 paid up members plus 22 affiliates. All the best for theseason ahead.

SA Long Distance Racing Pigeon Club Annual General Meeting to be heldnext week on Tuesday 21st May, 2019. Meeting to start at 7:00pmSAHPA Hall. All SAHPA members are welcome to attend, only SALDCfinancial members can vote. Agenda will include plans to upgradeSALDC Ute, Discuss Tasmanian race and how to best prepare the birdsfor crossing the water.

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05 May 2019 17:35:19:
Posted by JOHN HARPER from
GENERAL SECRETARY,

RING TRANSFERSWe are asking members to ensure that all rings have been transferredinto the owners name due to the increasing amount of lost birds beingreported now that tossing has started. If the lost bird has a foreignring that has not been transferred the Ring Secretary has no idea whothe owner is, which can be a very annoying and a time consumingexercise trying to track down the owner.Thanks

Training Units - The two training units start this Sunday the 5thMay. Please look under the Points/Programs tab and you will find the2019 Ford Training program as well as the 2019 SALDC Trainingprogram.

In an attempt to reduce the subsidy the SAHPA is providing forTraining, we have decided to sell the Hino Dutro unit and we areusing the SALDC Holden Colorado Ute and Southern Districts clubtrailer for that route. Ray Pimlott will provide this service,please check program for pick up points and times.

Don Schwarz will once again provide the service with the Ford F100Unit. Please check points and pick up times, there are some minorchanges.

Later in the season after the YBC, Don's Ford unit will do a pick upfor Southern Flyers from Castle Plaza and we will stop the SALDC utefor mid week training but Ray will still provide the weekendtraining. Please check program for details.

Race Program 2019 - Please see new revision dated 30/04/2019, we haveadded a Bye weekend between the Terang Open and the double headerfrom Benalla and Springhurst. This allow flyers to prepare birdsfrom the first Benalla 4 weeks earlier and the Terang birds will have2 weeks to recover and be available for selection for the lastweekends double header. We are also making arrangements on thedouble header weekend to have the Truck leave the Benalla birds onthe Geraldy Trailer friday night and be attended to and liberated atthe same time as the Springhurst birds on the Geraldy Truck on theSaturday morning. Thus giving both races the best possibleopportunity to get home on the day if the winds are favourable. TheSA Long Distance race dates have also been updated on the program.

Marree Sires Classic 580km North of Adelaide. We are pleased toreport that the nominations for the race are up from $17,860 in 2018to $24,920 in 2019, 130 birds auctioned, 162 birds prepaid in otherflyers loft and 294 birds prepaid in flyers own loft (total 586 birdsnominated). We will hamper at SAHPA Hall on Friday 9th August andthe birds will be released on Sunday 11th August. We thank all theparticipants. Prizemoney splits will be published later in theseason, 60% to Flyer and 40% to Breeder/Nominator.